May I or May I not run TOR service with trust calculation

[Boris shtrasman]

On Mon, Aug 30, 2010 at 10:47 AM, Elazar Leibovich <elazarl at gmail.com>wrote:

> Just FYI, I'm not sure how reliable the blog I'm linking to is, but I
> someone in Britain which ran a TOR exit node, someone used this node to
> access illegal materials, and blue cops came to visit him and interrogated
> him about this incident, and seized his personal computer.
>
> http://bit.ly/a3vPXZ
>
I heard that people in Britain and the states had been harassed by the
agencies for running exit nodes.

I don't care if a machine that run only the service will be sized but ...
Reading what happen each time for halemo (
http://halemo.net/edoar/0107/0004.html) makes you wonder ...


> 2010/8/30 Boris shtrasman <borissh1983 at gmail.com>
>
>> IANAL,
>>
>> Every now and then  **I hear about someone more running TOR servers here
>> in IL,
>> Few months ago I heared about resarch in trust computing in TOR and off
>> TOR network (few weeks ago I have read a research done by Marina Kupeetzki).
>> The question under the current law may I run TOR server / Exit node ?
>>
>> My question arise after reading צו הצופן and remembering that in many
>> cases the encryption between the nodes is much more then 56 bit(*).
>> Also If you operate a TOR exit node, you actually help people that are in
>> countries in conflict with IL (e.g. Iran) so I don't know if it is even
>> legal to run an exit node here.
>>
>>
>>
>> (*) - I take the number 56 since I saw it on J.Klinger blog.
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